Asia Leaders

Benigno S. Aquino III, President of Philippines (since June 30, 2010)
Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III (born February 8, 1960) also known as Noynoy Aquino is the fifteenth President of the Philippines and is concurrently the Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government.
Aquino is a fourth-generation politician: his great-grandfather, Servillano “Mianong” Aquino, served [...]

Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan (since Jun 8, 2010)
Born on October 10, 1946 in Ube, Yamaguchi. Okayama domicile. Metropolitan Koyamadai high school. Graduated from Faculty of Applied Physics and Technology. House of Representatives. Attorney. Living in Musashino, Tokyo.
1965 in Metropolitan Koyamadai high school.
1970 Graduated from Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology.
In [...]

Roza Otunbayeva, President of Kyrgyzstan (since May 19, 2010)
Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva (Kyrgyz: Роза Исаковна Отунбаева, Russian: Роза Исаковна Отунбаева; born August 23, 1950) is the President of Kyrgyzstan, following the 2010 revolution which led to the ousting of then President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. She is a former foreign minister and head of the parliamentary caucus for [...]

Ali Abdallah Salih, President of Yemen
1942: Born in Bayt al-Ahmar as a member of the Sanhan tribe of the Hashid tribe.
1958: Joins the army only 16 years old.
1962 September 26: Saleh leads a coup that replaces the Muslim monarchy of North Yemen with a civilian government.
1974: Saleh takes part in the coup that brings Ibrahim [...]

Nguyen Minh Triet, President of Vietnam
Nguyen Minh Triet was re-elected State President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam at the on-going first session of the 12th National Assembly on July 24.
Following is his brief biography:
- Born on October 8, 1942.
- Native land: Phu An Commune, Ben Cat District, Binh Duong province
- [...]

Islam Abdughanievich Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
The words “first”, “for the first time”, “never before” have been used more often and insistently lately when talking about Uzbekistan. After 1989, the days of the republic were full of so many events and phenomena that it would be sufficient for [...]